Tagged: hostile work environment

In August 2018, ADH Member, Les Alderman, settled a lawsuit filed on behalf of an employee of a District of Columbia agency for $400,000. The plaintiff was subjected to a hostile work environment based on her disability and regularly subjected to insults such as “crip” and “cripple” over the course of her employment. When the plaintiff complained about the hostile environment, she was terminated.

Sundeep Hora successfully represented a Department of Transportation employee in an age and race discrimination, hostile work environment, and retaliation case against the Agency. Mr. Hora’s client was demoted in 2008 within the Department of Transportation, given work below her skill and grade level, and issued unjustified poor performance evaluations. After a hearing before an Administrative Judge, the client was awarded back pay and reinstatement to her old position within the Department. Mr. Hora then prevailed when the DOT filed an Appeal with the EEOC in 2014, a Motion for Reconsideration of the EEOC decision in 2015, and again in February 2017 when the Agency lost a Petition for Clarification with the EEOC. During the pendency of one of the Agency’s appeals, the client voluntarily retired. Mr. Hora was able to secure her backpay during her retirement by successfully arguing that the client would not have retired from her demoted position had the Agency timely restored her to her position before the unlawful discrimination, as ordered by the Administrative Judge.

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